10.16.08
Emily Outen
757-864-7022
emily.s.outen@nasa.govMEDIA ADVISORY: 08-066
08-066: RENOWNED ECONOMIST TO SPEAK ON NASA'S ROLE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
HAMPTON, Va. -- "Our generation's greatest challenge is sustainable
development: living peacefully, prosperously and sustainably on a
crowded planet," says Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute
at Columbia University and special advisor to the U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
According to Sachs, NASA will play a vital role in helping the nation
and the world to meet this challenge. NASA’s technologies, for
example, play a decisive role in enabling us to monitor the Earth’s
physical processes, such as those linked to human-induced climate
change. He will speak on NASA's role involving science and technology
in a colloquium lecture called "Why NASA and Earth Science are Vital
for Human Wellbeing" on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. in the Reid
Conference Center at NASA Langley. The talk is part of a four-lecture
series throughout October celebrating NASA's 50th anniversary.
Media who wish to interview Sachs at a news briefing at 1:15 p.m.
Tuesday should contact Emily Outen at 864-7022 or at
emily.s.outen@nasa.gov by noon for credentials and entry to NASA
Langley.
Sachs will present the same lecture for the general public on Tuesday
evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Virginia Air & Space Center on Settlers
Landing Road in Hampton. The evening talk is free and no reservations
are required.
Named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time
Magazine, Sachs is the director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet
professor of sustainable development and professor of health policy
and management at Columbia University. He is internationally renowned
for advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former
Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for his work
with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease
control and debt reduction of poor countries. Sachs recently was
elected into the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of
the National Bureau of Economic Research.
For more information on NASA Langley’s Colloquium and Sigma Series
lectures, visit:
http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/Lectures/colloq/colloqsigma.htm

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